Last w/e I visited Wirral to speak at a local Green Party event organised by Green Party councillor Gail Jenkinson, thank you Gail!

The following day I met campaigners opposing the proposed Peak Cluster scheme intending to transport C02 emissions from cement factories to be stored off shore. I spoke to campaigners including Laura Beveridge-Muircroft, chair of campaign group Action Against Carbon Capture Storage AACCS.

Laura says: The proposed Peak Cluster carbon capture and storage project involves approximately 200 km of CO₂ pipeline infrastructure, transporting emissions from cement and lime production facilities to geological storage beneath Morecambe Bay. The National Wealth Fund has committed approximately £28.6 million in public investment towards the project’s development, with total project costs potentially running into billions of pounds. Given the scale of the proposed infrastructure and the availability of alternative industrial decarbonisation technologies, there are legitimate questions concerning value for money and whether less costly or less environmentally damaging solutions have been adequately assessed.

Following my visit I will ask the Government: What independent value-for-money assessment was undertaken before public funding was committed to the Peak Cluster carbon capture and storage project, and what evidence can the Government provide that alternative decarbonisation technologies, including low-carbon cement production, alternative fuels and process innovations, were comprehensively evaluated against the project’s whole-life financial costs, environmental impacts and anticipated carbon reductions?

The Wirral Glove article on my visit here: Baroness Jones backs Wirral campaign against CO2 pipeline | Wirral Globe